"Boom ......"

A twenty-four-pound iron pellet slammed into the deck of the "Awe", making a large hole the size of a basin in the deck made of oak an inch thick, and then the iron pellet did not stop, but rushed into the gun compartment on the lower level with the remaining energy, and hit a bronze cannon with a loud "clang", and then the iron pellet rebounded, knocking the two gunners next to him to the ground, and finally rolled twice on the deck before surviving.

Captain Taylor, who was originally a little drunk, looked at the two battleships that were firing at him more than 400 meters in front of him, and said anxiously: "Lieutenant Colonel, the guns of the Ming warships on the opposite side are too far away, and we have no way to fight back!" ”

"Shut up, I don't need you to teach me!" Caleb, who was already angry, glared at Taylor viciously, "Now you rush to the gun bay and tell the group of idiots below, I don't care what method they use to shoot at those two battleships immediately, if the normal charge doesn't work, then the strong charge, I can't let those two damn battleships run rampant like this!" ”

"But ......"

"Nothing!" Taylor tried to argue but was stopped by Caleb's words, "Instead of letting them beat us like this, we might as well take a risk, and if we can hit their ship, we win, you know?" ”

Looking at Caleb's anxious red eyes, Taylor swallowed what he wanted to say, silently saluted him and went down.

Caleb didn't look at Captain Taylor, who was leaving silently, and turned to the helmsman next to him and said, "Quick...... Hurry up and order the sailman to hang the whole sail, and he must lean on, only then can our artillery be reached. This sentence was said by Caleb while gritting his teeth, he couldn't figure it out, how could those stupid and cowardly Oriental natives research such a long-range artillery, this is obviously unscientific, doesn't it mean that the people here only talk about the navy and firearms very contemptively?

As soon as the battle began, Caleb felt that things were not going as smoothly as he had originally envisioned. Although the first three rounds of artillery at the beginning did not even break their skin, but when the two battleships broke into a distance of four hundred meters from them, they finally began to hit them one after another, although these were solid shells, and only two or three shells could not bring them much damage, but Caleb seemed to have smelled a trace of bad atmosphere.

"Hurry up...... Lean in, you can't be beaten like this passively! Order the "Parrot" to immediately stick to entangle them, forcing them to slow down, and only then can we defeat them. Caleb desperately urged the ship to start accelerating. At the same time, he also secretly swore in his heart that once he defeated these two battleships, he would definitely hang all these damned Ming people, but before that, there was a premise, he had to capture the guns on these two battleships, and he was too curious about the fact that this kind of range could still be mounted on the battleship. If he could capture these guns and bring them back to Spain for imitation by the local military factories, then the Spanish warships would be invincible in the world, and he himself would receive countless honors and awards. The thought of the innumerable gold coins and the adoring eyes of the beautiful ladies and ladies at the social balls made Caleb feel an irrepressible excitement begin to well-rise in his heart.

"My lord, the red-haired ghost's warship is catching up from behind!" Meanwhile. An lookout also reported the situation to Chen Zhenhui and Lin Xiang.

Looking back at the Galen ship that was gradually approaching behind, Lin Xiang frowned, "Order the sailman to hang the full sail and move forward at full speed, and not let the warship behind stick to it." ”

"Yes!"

Looking at the Spanish battleship gradually approaching on the left, Chen Zhenhui frowned and asked, "Mr. Lin Qian." I obviously saw that the two red-haired warships had already hit a few of our projectiles, but why didn't there be much damage to the combat power? ”

Lin Xiang smiled bitterly: "Chen Tong doesn't know, the projectiles fired by us are all solid projectiles, and if they don't hit the enemy ship's vital point, it won't cause much damage." However, large-area anti-personnel munitions such as chain bombs and scattered bombs have to be shortened before they can be launched. Otherwise, it's just useless work. ”

"That's right!" Chen Zhenhui nodded and stopped talking, as the so-called art industry has a specialty, he is just a civil official. In terms of combat skills and the level of commanding operations, he could not compare to Lin Xiang, an officer of the Naval Division.

As the two of them spoke, they heard a rumbling cannon sound from the side, and even the people followed the sound of the cannon to see a puff of white smoke coming out of the two Spanish warships on the left.

Before the two of them could say anything, they saw a black dot flying towards them, and after about seven or eight seconds, the projectiles fell into the water one after another, splashing a large wave.

"Oh no, the red-haired ghost has fired!" Lin Xiang was taken aback, although this round of artillery only hit the side of the battleship and did not cause them any losses, he still said loudly: "Lord Chen, you are a civil official, this is not the place where you should stay, you should go to the cabin immediately to hide, otherwise the cannonball will not be long, if there is a mistake, it will be terrible!" Someone, send Master Chen to the cabin! ”

"Yes!" Soon a sailor came over to take Chen Zhenhui back to the cabin.

"No need!" Chen Zhenhui waved her hand to signal the sailor to get out of the way, and then shouted dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Lin Qian, what do you mean, don't you look down on this official, although this official doesn't know how to fight in battle, but he is also an official appointed by the imperial court." It's okay if I can't help you, but I will never hold you back, and I can still do it if the official can't help you. Mr. Lin Qian, you are here to command, and this officer will go to the back to beat the drum for you! ”

After speaking, Chen Zhenhui strode towards the back of the boat. Soon, Chen Zhenhui came to the back of the battleship, there was a tabletop-sized cowhide drum, which was a backup communication method to prevent the ship from encountering the fog and not being able to contact with the flag, but now the battleship is generally equipped with a seated walkie-talkie, so this drum has become an ornament.

Chen Zhenhui picked up the drumstick and slammed it on the drum, making a heavy sound.

"Knock...... Knock Knock...... Knock knock knock ......"

A dull drum beat began to sound on the battleship, at first just one after another, but soon the drums began to intensify, and one after another the war drums seemed to knock into the hearts of the people, and soon a hoarse and desolate song also sounded with the drums.

You don't see it, the end of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is the captive, please be long-tasseled;

You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds!

The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life?

The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feather is constantly fighting!

Abandon my old pen, and use my wartime to call out more than 100,000 comrades, singing war songs and joining the army......

This military song copied from Yueyang from modern times has now become the military song of the Xuan army, but all the soldiers of the Xuan army do not like this majestic military song, because when the sound of this song sounded on the battleship, the sailors who were busy on the battleship were stunned for a moment, and then some people began to slowly drink this song and began to sing, and the impassioned singing resounded in all corners of the battleship......

"Putting ......"

"Fire ......"

"Give Lao Tzu a hard beating......"

Orders rang out in the gun compartment, and although the words were different, the meaning was the same, that is, to fire the projectiles in the barrel as quickly as possible.

The thick white smoke shrouded the gun compartment, although the cold sea breeze continued to blow in from the baffle, but with the continuous firing of the artillery, the smoke in the gun compartment never dissipated, and the thick smell of gunpowder smoke always filled the gun compartment, at this time all the gunners had only one thought, that is, to sink the enemy ships in front.

As the artillery battle continued, although Lin Xiang tried his best to use his speed advantage to widen the distance between the two sides, due to the harassment of the Galen ship behind him, their speed was never fast, and the distance between the two sides had approached from more than 400 meters to more than 200 meters, which had reached the range of the "Parrot" battleship.

"Boom ......"

A projectile hit the stern of the ship, and after breaking one side of the ship, the projectile rolled to Chen Zhenhui, who was beating the drum, Chen Zhenhui did not pay attention to the iron pellet that was still smoking because of the high temperature, and still tried to beat the big drum, he was doing his part for this naval battle in this way.

"Whew...... Bang Dang ......"

Another projectile flew over Chen Zhenhui's head, but the drum beat still did not pause in the slightest......

At the same time, in the cabin below, Li Xiangjun and the three daughters sat at the table with calm and calm expressions, although the sound of cannons still came to their ears from time to time at this time, but the hearts of the three girls had already flown to the big man, and flew to the lover who made them think about it. In front of the three women was a white porcelain vase, and the mouth of the porcelain vase was stuffed with a red cloth. The three women sitting at the table looked at it with their eyes from time to time. This is the poison that Li Xiangjun carried with him, which was originally only used to prevent emergencies, but he didn't expect it to be put out on such an occasion today.

With the continuous firing, the artillery fire on the two battleships became more and more intense, and projectiles continued to fall on the "Parrot", causing quite a lot of casualties.

"Bastard, how can the guns of this battleship be so fierce!" At this time, Caleb has long lost the calmness of the first battle, the fierce artillery fire of the Ming battleship has scarred his battleship, and the upper deck has been punched out more than ten holes, although the opponent's losses are also not small, but the artillery fire is becoming more and more fierce.

"Boom...... Bang bang ......"

Suddenly a loud bang sounded from not far away, Caleb turned his head to look, his eyes suddenly widened, and his face showed a look of horror, he saw that the front mast of the "Seabird", which was originally following him, was hit by a chain bullet, and the long chain wrapped around the mast and pulled down the mast, which was as thick as a sea bowl, and the broken mast made a tooth-rattling sound...... (To be continued......)